by Nick Stone | Mar 19, 2024 | Mike Mackmin's Blog, Staff and Guest blogs
I was told that my first words, lisped in the early 1940s, were ‘flowers’ and ‘airplanes’. So here was Nature. And the place? A new build (finished in 1938) of small, pebble-dashed, semis and detacheds and a couple of terraces a short walk from the terminus of London...
by Michael Mackmin | Jan 10, 2022 | Blogs, Mike Mackmin's Blog
The Rialto 97 is printed and subscribers’ copies should have arrived. There’s been a long gap. I suspect that I might have found it difficult to return to the routine of reading submissions, having had a break from doing so while Degna was compiling No. 96. I also...
by Michael Mackmin | May 12, 2021 | Blogs, Mike Mackmin's Blog, News
THE RIALTO FEBRUARY NEWS ‘I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausages and haddock by writing them down.’ Virginia Woolf HEADLINES THE RIALTO NATURE AND PLACE COMPETITION The closing date for the competition is rushing towards us. Please let us have...
by Michael Mackmin | Feb 18, 2020 | Blogs, Mike Mackmin's Blog, News
93 The Rialto No.93 is out in the world. Storm Ciara is bustling about making working in the garden unattractive, so here I am sat down to celebrate the new issue. It is actually just a rather wet and windy day here but the weather forecasters seem to have been...
by Michael Mackmin | Sep 12, 2019 | Blogs, Mike Mackmin's Blog
‘I think this is a really good time for poetry. If anybody ever thought poetry was a luxury, that’s gone. Poetry is a necessary remedy to a lot of the darkness we are subject to.’ Tracy K Smith, USA Poet Laureate, The Observer 30.06.19 The Rialto No. 92 is now out in...
by Nick Stone | Jun 30, 2017 | Blogs, Mike Mackmin's Blog
‘i think i want to write about race’ really thats really cool can you do that arent you white o so you decided to go full american then will you send me your poems i think thats a good move for you are they going to be performance poems i thought you hated that sort...
by Michael Mackmin | May 16, 2016 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
If you can get to Great Yarmouth this week please do so and go to the Hippodrome. They’ve got the most astonishing production of The Tempest that I’ve ever seen. The Hippodome is an old indoor circus space, it’s a bit like being inside a work by...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 12, 2014 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
From our Vimeo Channel. Lorraine Mariner – Poetry Dreams from The Rialto on...
by Nick Stone | Jan 30, 2014 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
The Rialto and the RSPB are very pleased to announce the results of the 2013 Nature Poetry Competition, judged by Ruth Padel. First Prize: ‘Kites’ by Colin Hughes Second Prize: ‘Swift’ by Marna Gowan Third Prize: ‘The Inkling’ by...
by Michael Mackmin | Sep 25, 2013 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
When I came to type up the poems I’d accepted for the ‘Summer’ Rialto (No. 78) I found I was several pages short of an issue. So I have had to do some concentrated reading to find more, excellent, poems. And at about the same time as I was doing this...
by Michael Mackmin | Jul 15, 2013 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
E.D.P – The Editor Development Programme The Editor Development Programme is now live. If you want to be considered for it you’ll have to make haste as the closing date for applications is at the end of this week. We have been talking about this programme...
by Michael Mackmin | Sep 28, 2012 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
The results of the competition will be published on Monday, October 1st. The winners have already been notified. On the final day of judging Sir Andrew Motion and Mark Cocker made their selections from 100 poems by the poets listed below. Some entrants had more than...
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